Rachel Maddow is speaking out hours after it was announced that Joy Reid would be exiting MSNBC. On Monday, Feb. 24, The Rachel Maddow Show host, 51, began her show by expressing that Reid's departure from the network earlier the same day was “very, very, very hard to take.”

MSNBC's star presenter Rachel Maddow has been mocked by conservatives on social media after condemning her network's decision to cancel Joy Reid's show ReidOut as "a bad mistake." Speaking on air during her Monday show,